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Subject:	Re: 1.5.25: Regtool can not find registry?
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Josef Wolf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I had a working cygwin installation for several years on this machine.
> 
> But then I decided to remove and reinstall it.  (I reinstalled cygwin
> only, not the whole machine).  Since the reinstall, regtool refuses to
> work.  It always complains that it can not find the specified file.
> Strange enough, cygcheck _is_ able to read information from the
> registry.
> 
> Here are examples of what I get:
> 
>   $ regtool get '/HKLM/SOFTWARE/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin
>   Error (2): Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.
>   $ regtool get '/HKLM/SOFTWARE/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v2'
>   Error (2): Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.
> 
> Any ideas how to track down this problem?

Two thoughts:

   1. Try running this under 'strace' to see if you can spot something.

   2. Remove the values from your CYGWIN environment variable and
      reboot.

Either of these two thoughts may lead nowhere but that's the best I can
come up with.

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